How can Rotary Club justify vintage drive?
This week’s reader’s picture is by Blairgowrie resident Rob Robertson, who spotted a Dipper just below the steps up to Balmoral
Can the Rotary Club please explain how the Drive-It Day on August 22, as advertised last week, is in any way acceptable in view of the climate situation?
The previous event two years ago involved numerous vintage vehicles using fossil fuels, emitting incalculable amounts of damaging greenhouse gases on their l00-mile route partly round Perthshire, not including the journeys to the event of the participants and spectators.
At that time the Climate Cafe here expressed great concern and requested at least a donation for local fruit tree planting to offset emissions even in a very small way.
This was indeed funded and trees planted by the riverside.
Since then the climate emergency has escalated to an existential threat to humanity.
This is not quite as obvious or severe yet in Scotland as in other parts of the world, but now includes Europe.
Many people in Rattray and
Road from Riverside Drive.
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Blair are taking positive action to protect and encourage biodiversity, to protect their children from polluted air, soil and water, flooding and risks to health, so to see the disregard which a well respected and philanthropic group like the Rotary Club appears to be showing for the climate situation we face is beyond disappointing.
How should this event be explained to our children and grandchildren, the generation whose lives will be most impacted by fossil fuel environmental damage?
How was this explained to, or even permitted by Perth and Kinross Council, which has previously declared a climate emergency?
Time is not on our side. We can no longer ignore the scientific consensus on the damaging use of fossil fuels and consequent carbon emissions and global heating trends.
The Climate Cafes of Perthshire, name and address supplied
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Dear Editor
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who nominated us both for the award of Citizen of the Year for 2019-20.
It was especially nice to be sharing the award between us for what was a year with a difference!
Having our names on the Blairgowrie Advertiser Cup is a huge honour and the engraved stones, which we can keep, are so unique and will be greatly treasured.
We were also presented with beautiful bouquets of Something Special flowers and heard some very kind words from Sandy Thomson, on behalf of Blairgowrie and Rattray Community Council, and from Johnathon and Clare from the Blairie, who organised the presentation.
It was very much appreciated!
Mary Birch, Blair in Bloom, and Kay Seal, of Blairgowrie, Rattray and District Climate Cafe
Dear Editor
There has been some wailing and shouting on social media this week about St Johnstone selling tickets for the big match with Galatasaray.
Apparently fans who had not bought season tickets were upset that they were unable to buy tickets or spent hours online trying to buy them.
I’d be interested to see what these fans wanted the club to do differently.
We are just a small club with a small staff who were doing their best to help people out.
People around the world miss out on big events because there are not enough tickets to go around.
It’s happened to myself but I did not feel the need to moan on social media about it.
Well done to the club for organising things at such a short notice.
Saints did themselves proud on and off the pitch and are a credit to the whole of Perth and Kinross.
Proud Saintee, name and address supplied